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marine general john allen is back on track to become supreme commander of nato forces in europe. white house officials said today his nomination is no longer on hold. that's after the pentagon inspector general cleared allen of any wrongdoing in e-mail exchanges with a tampa, florida woman. allen steps down as overall coalition commander in afghanistan next month. the air force's top general vowed today to put an end to sexual misconduct within the service. figures for 2012 show some 800 reported incidents. many of the cases stemmed from a scandal at lackland air force base near san antonio. an investigation there found 32 instructors allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with nearly 60 female service members. at a house hearing, the air force chief of staff general mark welsh called the numbers appalling. >> there is no way we can allow this to happen again. the air force goal for sexual assault is not simply to lower the number. the goal is zero. it's the only acceptable objective. the impact on every victim, their family, their friends, the other people in their unit is heart
marine general john allen is back on track to become supreme commander of nato forces in europe. white house officials said today his nomination is no longer on hold. that's after the pentagon inspector general cleared allen of any wrongdoing in e-mail exchanges with a tampa, florida woman. allen steps down as overall coalition commander in afghanistan next month. the air force's top general vowed today to put an end to sexual misconduct within the service. figures for 2012 show some 800...
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it was a nato air field that was supposed to be protected by both british soldiers, as well as u.s. marines. and they managed to get on the flight line and destroy $200 million worth of u.s. fighter jets and other equipment, the largest single loss of allied material in the 12-year long afghan war. and the allegation here that has been substantiated by the investigation is that as the marines were drawing down their forces from that part of afghanistan, they cut back on the number of troops to patrol the area around that base, and so they left the area around that base pretty much uncovered. >> who was supposed to be covering that area around the base? >> a combination of both british troops, soldiers from the nation of tonga, who were supposed to be manning watch towers, and the watch tower closest to the point of entry was left unmanned on the night of the attack. the american marines were supposed to be patrolling the areas around it, a broad perimeter of desert where there were a number of sort of en campments that had been set up by poor afghan farmers. and these insurgents man
it was a nato air field that was supposed to be protected by both british soldiers, as well as u.s. marines. and they managed to get on the flight line and destroy $200 million worth of u.s. fighter jets and other equipment, the largest single loss of allied material in the 12-year long afghan war. and the allegation here that has been substantiated by the investigation is that as the marines were drawing down their forces from that part of afghanistan, they cut back on the number of troops to...
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nato did not identify the nationalities of those killed today. in libya, a confrontation escalated as militiamen surrounded the justice ministry in the capital city, tripoli. it's the third day of trouble, as armed groups test the government's political transition. gunmen stood guard today beside trucks mounted with anti- aircraft guns. roads around the justice ministry were sealed off, the building was closed, and visitors were turned away. the militias are trying to force out members of moammar gadhafi's regime who are still in government posts. the parliament of cyprus narrowly passed a multibillion- dollar bailout plan today, avoiding national bankruptcy. the government struck the deal with its euro partners and the international monetary fund last week. officials had warned that without the agreement, the country faced economic collapse and possible withdrawal from the euro system. the deal has angered many cypriots by forcing large bank depositors to take major losses on their savings. the u.s. economy is giving off more signals of growth.
nato did not identify the nationalities of those killed today. in libya, a confrontation escalated as militiamen surrounded the justice ministry in the capital city, tripoli. it's the third day of trouble, as armed groups test the government's political transition. gunmen stood guard today beside trucks mounted with anti- aircraft guns. roads around the justice ministry were sealed off, the building was closed, and visitors were turned away. the militias are trying to force out members of...
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. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about the logistical issues that are inherent in any kind of war but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to move rapidly in this kind of terrain. it's very much adown the american southwest and it is a very, very difficult area not only from the standpoint of things like temperature and mountains and things of that nature, it's the nature of the terrain that makes it very difficult to move from one point to another. >> suarez: we've been covering the fight in mali over the last several days but algeria hasn't been in the news for a long time. what's the state of play there? who's running the place? >> there's a government in algeria it's one that probably we would describe as formerly a republic but an
. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about the logistical issues that are inherent in any kind of war but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to...
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known as the quetta shura, has been based over the last decade using that city to direct attacks on nato and american soldiers inside afghanistan. >> suarez: what kind of ripple effect could this violence have more broadly for pakistan? >> this is a worrying sign for the stability of pakistan as it enters a very sensitive period. elections are due to take place within the next three or four months and there are many pakistanis who worry thatareth security situation continues to spiral out of control such as it appeared to be doing today that this could create the circumstances where the political process could be in danger even of being derailed. >> suarez: declan walsh reporting from islamabad, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> brown: next, new mortgage rules from the government, designed to clamp down on risky lending practices. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out
known as the quetta shura, has been based over the last decade using that city to direct attacks on nato and american soldiers inside afghanistan. >> suarez: what kind of ripple effect could this violence have more broadly for pakistan? >> this is a worrying sign for the stability of pakistan as it enters a very sensitive period. elections are due to take place within the next three or four months and there are many pakistanis who worry thatareth security situation continues to...
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. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task, is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about t lostical iues tt are inherent in any kind of war, but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to move rapidly in this kind of terrain. it's very much adown the american southwest and it is a very, very difficult area not only from the standpoint of things like temperature and mountains and things of that nature, it's the nature of the terrain that makes it very difficult to move from one point to another. >> suarez: we've been covering the fight in mali over the last several days but algeria hasn't been in the news for a long time. what's the state of play there? who's running the place? >> there's a government in algeria, it's one that probably we would describe as formerly a republic but an autho
. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task, is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about t lostical iues tt are inherent in any kind of war, but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to move...
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we got a nato alliance to apply the force. and we got the local regional organizations-- the arab league-- to support it. that was perfect. now, what we didn't do in libya and we're doing now is go to the congress for authorization. >> woodruff: but isn't the idea of getting the u.n. on board impossible given the relationship between the -- russia and syria? >> it is pretty much. in impossible right now. although even the russians, i think, would be reluctant to be visibly opposed to supporting the chemical weapons convention. but i think ultimately the u.s. and russia agreement on syria is the best try stop the fighting. >> pelley: but are we talking about something that's purely theoretical here, ambassador hill? because we just saw the reporting from st. petersburg. the president, vladimir putin, we know those relations are frosty right now. the idea of depending on russia supporting any u.s. action, wouldn't that be tantamount to not doing anything? >> well, i don't think we're going to get any russian acquiescence or russ
we got a nato alliance to apply the force. and we got the local regional organizations-- the arab league-- to support it. that was perfect. now, what we didn't do in libya and we're doing now is go to the congress for authorization. >> woodruff: but isn't the idea of getting the u.n. on board impossible given the relationship between the -- russia and syria? >> it is pretty much. in impossible right now. although even the russians, i think, would be reluctant to be visibly opposed...
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known as the quetta shura has been based over the last decade using that city to direct attacks on nato and american soldiers inside afghanistan. >> suarez: what kind of ripple effect could this violence have more broadly for pakistan? >> this is a worrying sign for the stability of pakistan as it enters a very sensitive period. elections are due to take place within the next three or four months and there are many pakistanis who worry that if the security situation continues to spiral out of control such as it appeared to be doing today that this could create the circumstances where the political process could be in danger even of being derailed. >> suarez: declan walsh reporting from islamabad thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> brown: next, new mortgage rules from the government, designed to clamp down on risky lending practices. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out
known as the quetta shura has been based over the last decade using that city to direct attacks on nato and american soldiers inside afghanistan. >> suarez: what kind of ripple effect could this violence have more broadly for pakistan? >> this is a worrying sign for the stability of pakistan as it enters a very sensitive period. elections are due to take place within the next three or four months and there are many pakistanis who worry that if the security situation continues to...
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nato secretary general attended the ceremony and elsa fa sighted that the coalition is not walking away. >> we train, advise, assist the afghan security forces so afghanistan will stand on its own feet after 2014. >> about 66,000 u.s. troops remain in afghanistan, that is down from a peak of 100,000 in 2010. during the surge ordered by president obama. but the transition has been barred by one of the most vibrant afghan springs in recent year. the attack came in kabul when a bomb targeting a shiite cleric killed three civilians. for more on all of this, we turn to three people with extensive experience dealing with afghanistan. david sedney served in afghanistan on the national security council staff, and then as deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan, pakistan, and central asia. retired army colonel david lamm was the chief of staff to the combined forces command in afghanistan in 2004 and 2005. he's now at the national defense university. and pamela constable covers south asia for the washington post. she's recently back from kabul. back last week, tell us a little bit
nato secretary general attended the ceremony and elsa fa sighted that the coalition is not walking away. >> we train, advise, assist the afghan security forces so afghanistan will stand on its own feet after 2014. >> about 66,000 u.s. troops remain in afghanistan, that is down from a peak of 100,000 in 2010. during the surge ordered by president obama. but the transition has been barred by one of the most vibrant afghan springs in recent year. the attack came in kabul when a bomb...
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secretary panetta sent them a written message, as he left for a nato defense ministers meeting in brussels. in it, he said there are limited options for coping with the looming across-the-board cuts. and, he said: >> on our civilians it will be catastrophic. >> woodruff: within hours, top pentagon officials were out, saying employees could lose one day of work per week for 22 weeks. civilians will experience a 20 percent decrease in their pay between late april and september. as a result, many families will be forced to make difficult decisions on where their financial obligations lie. >> reporter: the furloughs could start in late april and save roughly $5 billion. uniformed personnel at war would be exempt, but in a letter to congress, panetta wrote that the spending cuts will slow training and the procurement of weapons. the result, he said, will be a hollow force. the nation's top military leader had said as much last week at a senate hearing on the automatic cuts. chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey: >> this would be the steepest, biggest reduction in total obli
secretary panetta sent them a written message, as he left for a nato defense ministers meeting in brussels. in it, he said there are limited options for coping with the looming across-the-board cuts. and, he said: >> on our civilians it will be catastrophic. >> woodruff: within hours, top pentagon officials were out, saying employees could lose one day of work per week for 22 weeks. civilians will experience a 20 percent decrease in their pay between late april and september. as a...
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a day earlier, a truck bomb killed three georgian soldiers in the nato force. so far this year, 58 foreign troops have died in afghanistan, including 44 americans. authors of a sweeping u.s. immigration bill defeated new efforts today to make major changes in the measure. the senate judiciary committee spent a second day voting on some of the hundreds of proposed amendments. supporters turned back a republican proposal for eye scans and finger-prints to track those entering and aving e untry. the oscar-winning actor and director angelina jolie has announced she had a preventive double mastectomy. she says she underwent the surgery after learning she was strongly predisposed to getting breast cancer. jolie told her story in an opinion piece in "the new york times." she said she hopes it will help other women in similar situations. a genetic test found jolie had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer. her mother died of the disease at age 56. we have more, online, about the gene that increased jolie's risk of developing the disease. that's on our health page. the
a day earlier, a truck bomb killed three georgian soldiers in the nato force. so far this year, 58 foreign troops have died in afghanistan, including 44 americans. authors of a sweeping u.s. immigration bill defeated new efforts today to make major changes in the measure. the senate judiciary committee spent a second day voting on some of the hundreds of proposed amendments. supporters turned back a republican proposal for eye scans and finger-prints to track those entering and aving e untry....
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commander in afghanistan is going to retire, instead of becoming the overall nato commander in europe. president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the face of a looming deficit deadline. the so-called "sequester," $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, is set to take effect less than two weeks from now, on march 1. the president charged republicans' unwillingness to raise taxes is preventing a deal, and, he said, hundreds of thousands of public employees could be out of work, if the sequester takes place. >> this is not an expression: people will lose their jobs. the unemployment rate might tick up again. that's why democrats, business leaders and economists, they've already said that these cuts-- known here in washington as sequestration-- are
commander in afghanistan is going to retire, instead of becoming the overall nato commander in europe. president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the...
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., nato and the united nations, publicly and privately, for tougher action to stop the carnage and again after bombs killed 51 people in the turkish border town of reyhanli on saturday. reyhanli is home to 60,000 syrian refugees, among the more than 400,000 syrians who have fled to turkey. the prime minister has charged the bombings were linked to the syrian regime, which damascus denies. in the meantime, the u.s. and russia are pushing for a peace conference in geneva. secretary of state john kerry spoke about the prospect yesterday in sweden. >> each of us has agreed to work very hard with respect to the people we're in touch with the foreign ministers, the opposition, the syrian president bashar assad regime and others in order to bring the parties to the table. >> warner: but that same day, on npr, syria's vice minister of foreign affairs said the government would never agree to the demand that assad be ousted. >> the replacement of president assad means destruction of syria, means no international conference, and means support of terrorism. if this is the objective of the conference
., nato and the united nations, publicly and privately, for tougher action to stop the carnage and again after bombs killed 51 people in the turkish border town of reyhanli on saturday. reyhanli is home to 60,000 syrian refugees, among the more than 400,000 syrians who have fled to turkey. the prime minister has charged the bombings were linked to the syrian regime, which damascus denies. in the meantime, the u.s. and russia are pushing for a peace conference in geneva. secretary of state john...
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and nato forces in afghanistan, has laid out a range of troop level options to president obama, from as high as 20,000 to as low as 6,000, to stay on to train afghan soldiers and fight al qaeda. white house officials are said to favor fewer troops. this week, deputy national security adviser ben rhodes even suggested it's possible that no americans will stay. the president declined to name a number today. >> i'm still getting recommendations from the pentagon and our commanders on the ground in terms of what that would look like. and when we have more information about that, i will be describing that to the american people. >> woodruff: in november, the u.s. and afghanistan started negotiations on a so-called "bilateral security aeement" to govern any future american military role. u.s. officials have insisted that any troops who do stay must have legal protection, as the president said again today. >> we have arrangements like this with countries all around the world, and nowhere do we have any kind of security agreement with a country without immunity for our troops. >> woodruff: i
and nato forces in afghanistan, has laid out a range of troop level options to president obama, from as high as 20,000 to as low as 6,000, to stay on to train afghan soldiers and fight al qaeda. white house officials are said to favor fewer troops. this week, deputy national security adviser ben rhodes even suggested it's possible that no americans will stay. the president declined to name a number today. >> i'm still getting recommendations from the pentagon and our commanders on the...